Barclays

Caching Engineering Lead

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20 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the availability, performance, scalability, monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning of caching systems and services.
  • Analyze and resolve outages and disruptions, implement preventative measures, and support 24/7 high-availability operations.
  • Develop tools and scripts to automate operational processes and improve system resilience.
  • Implement Redis container patterns on Kubernetes using a Redis operator or Helm chart.
  • Drive architectural decisions, technical leadership, mentoring, and collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Monitor and optimize system performance and resource usage, identify bottlenecks, and integrate reliability practices into the software development lifecycle.
  • Manage risk and controls, advise senior stakeholders, and contribute to strategic technology and continuous-improvement initiatives.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience with caching and distributed cache architecture, including Redis, GridGain, or similar platforms.
  • Experience implementing DevOps automation with Git, JIRA, Ansible, containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and database CI/CD tools.
  • Experience with observability tools such as Observe, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Extensive experience with large, distributed, high-performance, high-availability infrastructure supporting 24/7 uptime.
  • Good knowledge of Python, Ansible, and Kafka, plus system configuration management for database servers.
  • Ability to drive architectural decisions, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.
  • Financial-environment experience, AWS/Azure/GCP cloud experience, Chef, and REST API development are valued.

Benefits

  • This role is based in the Barclays Pune office.

Tech Stack

AnsibleApache KafkaAWSAzureChefGitGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmKubernetesOpenShiftPrometheusPythonRedis

Categories

Site Reliability
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About Barclays

10,000+ employees

Barclays is a UK‑based universal bank that provides retail and commercial banking, credit cards (Barclaycard), wealth management, and investment banking to consumers, businesses, and institutions. Publicly listed in London and New York, it generates revenue from net interest income, fees, and markets activities, and operates across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia. Founded in 1690 and headquartered in London, it serves customers through digital channels and a branch network.

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